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The New York Times Bestseller

Praise for Bush's Brain

"Love him or hate him, Karl Rove is one of the most brilliant and successful political consultants of all time. In this riveting account, Wayne Slater and Jim Moore tell how he got there."
Paul Begala, CNN's Crossfire

"If you want to understand the President's underlying motives, read the new book on his guru, Karl Rove, Bush's Brain."
Al Hunt, The Wall Street Journal

"Bush's Brain, by James Moore and Wayne Slater, two experienced Texas reporters who have covered the pair for many years, has fresh information about Rove's influence on Bush . . . Moore and Slater think that Rove is a dangerous man, but their book is not biased or malicious, based as it is in solid reporting."
The New York Review of Books

"Bush's Brain isn't a hatchet job on George W. Bush. In fact, the two authors largely dispel the myth of Bush's supposedly deficient IQ. But, more importantly, they lay bare the story of how Karl Rove may be the most powerful man in America. It's a compelling story told by two veteran Texas journalists who don't need a briefing packet to understand the men they're writing about."
Philip Bruce, KCET/PBS Television, Los Angeles

Author Biography: JAMES MOORE is an Emmy Award-winning TV news correspondent with more than a quarter century of print and broadcast experience. He has traveled extensively on every presidential campaign since 1976. His reports have appeared on CNN, NBC, and CBS. His professional honors include an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television News Director's Association, and the Individual Broadcast Achievement Award from the Texas Headliners' Foundation. His new book is Bush's War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People.
WAYNE SLATER is the bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News in Austin, Texas. He has traveled extensively, covering national and state politics for the newspaper. Mr. Slater traveled full-time for eighteen months covering the presidential campaign of George W. Bush. He has covered every Republican and Democratic national convention since 1988, six sessions of the Texas Legislature, and the administrations of Texas Governors Bill Clements, Ann Richards, and George W. Bush. Mr. Slater is a frequent guest on numerous network and cable political programs.

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From the Publisher

"Love him or hate him, Karl Rove is one of the most brilliant and successful political consultants of all time. In this riveting account, Wayne Slater and Jim Moore tell how he got there." —Paul Begala, CNN's Crossfire

Bush?s Brain isn?t a hatchet job on George W. Bush.?In fact, the two authors largely dispel the myth of Bush?s supposedly deficient IQ. But more importantly, they lay bare the story of how Karl Rove?not the Vice-President?may be the most powerful man in America.
It?s a compelling story told by two veteran Texas journalists who don?t need a briefing packet to understand the men they?re writing about. —Philip Bruce, KCET/PBS Television, Los Angeles

"Now comes a new theory embedded in a book, Bush's Brain, by two Texas correspondents, James Moore, a TV broadcaster, and Wayne Slater, Austin bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News. They credit Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser, with persuading Bush to bring Iraq on to center stage where it is the dominant issue in the country today." —Helen Thomas

Paul Begala

Love him or hate him, Karl Rove is one of the most brilliant and successful political consultants of all time. In this riveting account, Wayne Slater and Jim Moore tell how he got there.

Philip Bruce

Bush's Brain isn't a hatchet job on George W. Bush. In fact, the two authors largely dispel the myth of Bush's supposedly deficient IQ. But, more importantly, they lay bare the story of how Karl Rove may be the most powerful man in America. It's a compelling story told by two veteran Texas journalists who don't need a briefing packet to understand the men they're writing about.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly

The complete subordination of public policy to political calculation is the theme of this hard-hitting biography of |ber-advisor Karl Rove. Drawing on their own reporting and interviews with Rove friends and foes, journalists Moore and Slater trace Rove's rise from high-school pol to high-priced, bare-knuckled campaign consultant, to his current perch as unrivaled architect of Bush administration policy. With an uncanny head for voting trends and poll results, a masterful way with a donor list and a gift for political re-packaging, Rove groomed Bush to ride the compassionate conservatism strategy straight to the White House. It's a colorful story, full of dirty tricks, misleading attack ads and sleazy whispering campaigns that drown out the issues. To the authors, Rove's "co-presidency" marks "the apotheosis of the permanent campaign," with everything from farm subsidies to steel tariffs to the saber-rattling against Iraq a part of his carefully considered mid-term election plans. The authors' line on Rove is by now conventional wisdom, but they bring it to life with a wealth of detail, painting nuanced character studies of Rove, the driven intellectual with an abrasive edge and an iron will to win, and Bush, the callow anti-intellectual with a charming air and a need for discipline and a game plan. Rove may not be the "genius" behind Bush's election they say he is-after all, there was more than campaign wizardry at work behind that contested victory-but he is a compelling character on the American political stage. (Mar.) Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information.

From the Publisher

"The second, and more substantial, of the recent books about Bush's longtime political partner, Karl Rove." (Austin American Statesman)
"Should force questions about having a win-at-all-costs political operative shaping White House policy as our nation moves toward war over the world's protests." (Austin American Statesman)
"Bush's Brain is also attracting attention for its stark claim that Rove has become America's "co-president"." (The London Times)
"If you want to understand the president's underlying motives, read the new book on his guru, Karl Rove, Bush's Brain. Penned by two crack Texas reporters, it discloses that in 1994 Mr. Rove, a hired gun for Philip Morris, persuaded the gubernatorial candidate George W. Bush to make tort reform a priority." (The Wall Street Journal, March 6, 2003)

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Meet the Author

JAMES MOORE is an Emmy Award-winning TV news correspondent with more than a quarter century of print and broadcast experience. He has traveled extensively on every presidential campaign since 1976. His reports have appeared on CNN, NBC, and CBS. His professional honors include an Emmy from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, the Edward R. Murrow Award from the Radio Television News Director’s Association, and the Individual Broadcast Achievement Award from the Texas Headliners’ Foundation. His new book is Bush’s War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People.

WAYNE SLATER is the bureau chief of the Dallas Morning News in Austin, Texas. He has traveled extensively, covering national and state politics for the newspaper. Mr. Slater traveled full-time for eighteen months covering the presidential campaign of George W. Bush. He has covered every Republican and Democratic national convention since 1988, six sessions of the Texas Legislature, and the administrations of Texas Governors Bill Clements, Ann Richards, and George W. Bush. Mr. Slater is a frequent guest on numerous network and cable political programs.

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Anonymous

Posted September 28, 2003

Key Topic, Badly Executed

I think a book revealing how Karl Rove operates would be of valuable service to the American public. His recent endangerment of undercover CIA operatives should spur much interest. However, this book was very poorly organized. Perhaps another person could take 'a stab' at Karl Rove?

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Anonymous

Posted June 23, 2003

Shame on the publishers and editors

I have never before read such a poorly edited book. While this has a very important--and frightening--story to tell, the book is so poorly constructed that I cannot believe it got published. Stories start and stop, being interrupted by other stories, and then are suddenly retold 5 pages later. It seems evident this was published only for the publicity. John Wiley & Sons must have fired all their editors. They have done the book industry a great disservice.

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